Improvement in bucket-ears



F. L. ROY.

BUCKET-EAR.

No.174,980. Patented March 21,1876.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

FRANK L. ROY, OF DARLINGTON, WISOON SIN IMPROVEMENT IN BUCKET EARS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. I 74,980. dated March 21, 1876; application filed February 16, 1676.

To all whom it "wi l OOMceWt.

Be it known that I, FRANK L. ROY, of Darlington, in the county of La Fayette and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ears for Buckets or Pans of Sheet Metal, of which the following is a specification.

This invention consists of two ears for attachment to a sheet-metal bucket or pan, which ears may be cut out of one piece of metal, turned over and combined'to form an inside and an outside strengthening piece or lugs, for riveting together through the interposed side of the pan or bucket. To these cars either a single handle-as for a saucepan-may he soldered or riveted, or a bail it for a bucket-may be secured.

The figures in the accompanying drawing clearly indicate the shape and mode of attaching the ears to either a bucket or a pan. A is the inside ear, and B the outside or counterpart ear, riveted through the interposed sheet metal of the vessel, and spanning its wire rim by suitable offsets a. The inner ear is made somewhat larger than the outer ear,

for the purpose of securing a firmer grasp of the metal of the vessel.

The methods heretofore used for attaching ears to buckets and pans have been by soldering alone, and then only usingan outside single ear. By this method the ear soon pulls two witnesses.

FRANK L. ROY. Witnesses:

G. F. OSBORN, J. B. ROY. 

